...sentence that any one else could make better. Mark ^Twain has expressed his merit with vigorous justice: "For forty years his English has been to me a continual...his peer in the English-writing world. Sustained. I intrench myself behind that protecting word. There are others who exhibit these great qualities as...

...testimony of his fellow-craftsmen. Mark Twain wrote of Mr. Howells's work in superlative terms: "for sustained exhibition of certain great qualities —...seemingly unconscious felicity of phrasing, he is without his peer in the Englishwriting world. His pictures are not mere stiff, hard, accurate photographs...

...fastidiousness about every page that he has written. The tribute of Mark Twain is none too strong: "For forty years his English has been to me a continual...and unforced and seemingly unconscious felicity of phrasing—he is, in my belief, without peer in the English-speaking world. Sustained. I entrench myself...

...Machiavelli in a late number of Harper, and I cannot find that his English has suffered any impairment. For forty years his English has been to me a continual...his peer in the English-writing world. Sustained. I intrench myself behind that protecting word. There are others who exhibit those great qualities as...

...fastidiousness about every page that he has written. The tribute of Mark Twain is none too strong: "For forty years his English has been to me a continual...felicity of phrasing — he is, in my belief, without peer in the English-speaking world. Sustained. I entrench myself behind that protecting word. There...

...Revolution, lives in these pages. . . . He is a painter of manners, evermore manners. — Fred Lewis Pattee. For forty years his English has been to me a continual...felicity of phrasing — he is, in my belief, without a peer in the English-speaking world. . . . He seems to be almost always able to find that elusive...

...Machiavelli in a late number of Harper, and I cannot find that his English has suffered any impairment. For forty years his English has been to me a continual...astonishment. In the sustained exhibition of certain great qualities—clearness, compression, verbal exactness, and unforced and seemingly unconscious felicity...

...beloved enjoyment, and what can only be described as a solid satisfaction. Mark Twain says of him : "For forty years his English has been to me a continual...astonishment. In the sustained exhibition of certain qualities — clearness, compression, verbal exactness, and unforced and seemingly unconscious felicity...

...characteristics which combine to make Howells one of the indisputable masters of our stubborn speech. For forty years his English has been to me a continual...belief, without his peer in the English-writing world. . . . There are others who exhibit those great qualities as greatly as does he, but only by intervaled...

...characteristics which combine to make Howells one of the indisputable masters of our stubborn speech. For forty years his English has been to me a continual...felicity of phrasing — he is. in my belief, without lu's peer in the English-writing world. . . . There are others who exhibit those great qualities as...